Welcome to the Hog Blog, a blog chronicling minor-league baseball in the Lehigh Valley. Tom Housenick, The Morning Call's IronPigs beat writer, has been at The Morning Call since 2008. In a previous lifetime, he was at Lackawanna County Stadium in Moosic talking with future Phillies Jimmy Rollins, Pat Burrell, Shane Victorino and Ryan Howard, among many others.
He’ll now be spending his summers in search of who the Phillies are hoping to be the next Chase Utley and Cole Hamels plus any outfielder who catch and hit. What he really hopes to find are the next Mariano Rivera, Todd Helton and Jim Thome --- great human beings who happened to be great at this sport.
He spent the last five years covering Colonial League football, college basketball and high school track & field.

Both have adjusted their schedules and moved their Sunday games to Saturday as parts of day-night doubleheaders (that is, you need two tickets to attend both games). For the R-Phils, tickets for Sunday's game will be honored at the 1 p.m. game with Portland. The regularly scheduled game is at 6:35 p.m.

The IronPigs don't have that option -- they finish their 10-game road trip Saturday in Louisville, and are scheduled to begin the final regular-season home stand of the season (gee, that sounds strange to say -- regular season -- indicating that there could be more games to follow) Sunday night against Syracuse.

But based on the weather reports, I wouldn't count on watching any baseball Sunday anywhere in the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast region. In fact -- and for their sake I hope I'm wrong -- but the IronPigs could have a lot of trouble getting back to town from Louisville if this storm lives up to its hype.

Not the kind of thing a team fighting for its first-ever postseason berth wants to deal with -- which makes these last three games of the road trip all that much more important.